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Muffins, pizza and faux fries!

I spent the afternoon baking some delicious blackberry and banana muffins! They were meant to be raspberry, but I had none – though I had a big stash of frozen blackberries from the autumn. I needed 175g, but ran out at about 120g, so I topped it up with chunks of frozen banana 🙂 I knew they would come in handy someday…..The recipe also called for half self-raising flour and half wholemeal self raising, but I only had the former. So I subbed in 30g wheatbran to boost up the nutritional value (yes,, a marginal difference..but still!) and they worked a treat. Though, while I was spooning in the mix, I ran out of large muffin cases, so I had to use a whole bunch of small ones…tad annoying! But anyays – muffin goodness in all their glory:

I had one as my afternoon snack (along with a hot chocolate):

You can never feel bad about eating homemade treats, cos they’re all full of goodness! No artifical preservatives, colours, flavourings….just pure simple ingredients 😀

Dinner tonight was (almost) an experiment; last week, at least half of the blogs I read had pizza for dinner (and all on the same day). Which gave me a big pizza craving! I used to hate pizza – I could eat thin crust, but I remember dreading trips to Pizza Hut – there was one occasion when I was at a big young rider’s dressage weekend, and we all went out for pizza…it was horrible! They were so doughy and sticky and it totally put me off. Before tonight, I hadn’t had pizza for about 3years!

So when I got a pizza craving, I jumped to it! I bought this spinach and ricotta pizza from the lovely Mr Tescos:

I liked the look of this one cos there was nothing dodgy or artificial in the ingredients list – it was all good, it almost looked homemade! I cut it in half and froze half, then baked the other bit tonight, along with some crown prince and parsnip (cut to look like chips 😛 pizza and chips, classic combo no!?), covered in paprika and cinnamon. I also added some extra chicken for protein. Dinner was served!

I probably had about 2/3 to 3/4 of the half, so I have a slice saved for tomorrow 🙂 But I was pleasantly surprised – it was tasty!!

I think the addition of my favourite veggies helped it all of course 😛

I was really craving bbq sauce with it though…I’ll remember that for when it comes to the next half!

When I bought that pizza, I was so convinced that I would like it, I bought 4mini pizza bases too 😛 so now I can create my own toppings! I’m thinking chicken, bbq sauce, squash, spinach….maybe throw in some PAPAYA cos I love it so!! What are everyone else’s favourite pizza toppings?

After BATTLING with the internet for what seemed like an eternity, JUST so I could print one sheet off, I got round to my evening snack – just my usual greek yogurt/dark chocolate/hot chocolate combination..gotta fuel up for my run tomorrow!! I’m hoping the roads won’t be too icy so I can get at least 10miles in; I don’t want to do a full 13, seeing as I’m doing that next Sunday, but I really want a good double figures run – mainly for my own peace of my mind; so I know I can.

I’m one of those people that just can not do things unless I feel 100% prepared. Like, I can’t go into an exam and feel calm unless I know I’ve done all the work that I can, I can’t enter a dressage competition unless I’ve already ridden and perfected that test etc etc. It’s a good habit to develop 😀 Except it won’t be useful for my full marathon in October…I can’t run a ‘practice’ marathon for a real marathon!!

Parsnip ones are the best I reckon..though sweet potato is awesome too – but they’re real fries then I suppose!?
I think I need to pay a visit to Mexico if that’s their papaya situation – I seriously can’t get enough of it 😛
HAha, my sister would be soooo jealous!! She literally wants to marry him. Her obsession is out of control now!